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URSR. Vote for our happiness, for the power of our fatherland, for the party led forward by the great Stalin who leads us to communism!

Poster Number: PP 231
Category: Stalin
Poster Notes: (On flag) URSR: "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic". Compare poster to PP 058-- same poster without text.
Media Size: 42.5x28
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: 1938
Editorial Information: Editor P. Nagorny. Technical Editor A. Shubin.
Technical Information on Poster: Mistetstvo, Kiev - 260. Submitted for publication April 13, 1938. Approved for printing May 5, 1938. Price 1 ruble.
Glavlit Directory Number: Department No. 801. [Unknown section of Glavlit]
Catalog Notes: PP 231 Stalin b; Sister poster PP 058
Language: Ukrainian
Artist: Deineko, P. — Дейнеко, П.
Printer: Chromolit Lithography Workshop named for Comrade Dzerzhinskii, Kharkov — Хромолит Типо-литография имени т. Дзержинского, Харьков
Located in Kharkov in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; the Chromolit Lithography was named in honor of Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinskii (1877-1926) who was head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (VChK) internal police who were commonly referred to as the “Cheka”. During its history, the printer was also named the 1st Chromolit Lithography and it was overseen by the printing trust UPKPT (Management of Production and Technical Equipment).
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Publisher: Mistetstvo (Art Publishing House), Ukrainian SSR — Мистецтво (Искусство издательство Госкомиздата УССР)
Mistetstvo (Art Publishing House) was founded in Kharkov (Ukrainian SSR) between 1932-'34. It moved to Kiev in 1935. The publisher's chief output comprised of posters, portraits, artistic monographs and sheet music.
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